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In reply to the discussion: Occupy vs the Anti-Social Justice Movement [View all]TheKentuckian
(26,314 posts)The most substantial problem seems to be that Occupy is not a Democratic Party booster organization. Many seem to want the movement to be some fusion of ACORN (which Democrats fecklessly helped destroy) and some unfunded, unassisted by party insiders and professional strategists, no free busses, left-leaning "Tea Party" that won't challenge the party establishment.
Failing that, become an advocacy group for economic issues roughly under the Democratic umbrella like a MoveOn or an ACLU or a Greenpeace and "piddle around with their myopic single issue agenda" as long as they endorse and bundle for Democrats.
I suspect some of the smarter folks that seem ticked and dismissive are frustrated to the point of anger because their hope was for this to grow into something that can one day replace the organizational and advocacy muscle of the unions they helped allow to wither and ACORN that they joined in TeaPubliKlan attacks to destroy which is insane because there is no room for the objectives of Occupy in a tent driven by the Turd Way.